Volume 1 Turbulent Times Chapter 211 Tug of War
Zhang Zuoxiang was not a person who was waiting to die. Sun Liechen said a few words in his ear. After thinking about it, he immediately decided to follow Sun Liechen's method.
The front line was progressing smoothly. Although the casualties of soldiers continued to increase one after another, seeing the annoying barbed wire mesh being solved by the engineers who rushed over, Yamaguchi Katsushiro, who had been holding his face since the war started, finally showed a smile on his face.
"Let the engineers speed up the progress, and send the 63rd Regiment to prepare in advance and launch an attack in an hour!"
"Hi!"
The messenger responded and turned around and ran towards the 63rd Regiment. At the same time, Yamaguchi Katsu took out his pocket watch and looked at the time. He guessed that before sunset today, Yunshan would be occupied by his division.
Who would have thought that after more than ten minutes, there were suddenly bursts of violent and unusual gunfire sounds from the front line. Just when Katsu Yamaguchi felt a little strange, the assault brigade commander in front came to report, saying that the Chinese on the front line suddenly launched a counterattack.
Yamaguchi was shocked and asked the captain to immediately organize a team to drive the Chinese who were counterattacking back. In any case, the Chinese must be suppressed and they cannot succeed.
Yamaguchi Katsushiro, who had been through a long battle, understood immediately. His offensive method made the opponent unable to sit still. If the 10th Division allowed the 10th Division to advance their trenches in this way, the Chinese would lose their most favorable advantage. Therefore, launching a counterattack and trying to destroy his strategy is the most important purpose of the Chinese.
Yamaguchi Katsui felt a little funny when he jumped out of the trenches and barbed wire to fight against the heroic samurai of the Great Japanese Empire. Did these Chinese people get in their heads? With their low-level combat power, they can compete with the elite 10th Division without the help of these things? In his opinion, the Chinese counterattack did not have much meaning, and the balance of victory was still on his side.
But Katsushi Yamaguchi did not expect that after only ten minutes, the front line reported that the Chinese counterattack was extremely fierce. Although the assault brigade was extremely brave under the opponent's counterattack, it had a huge casualties and could no longer withstand it. He asked for tactical guidance.
"This is impossible!"
Yamaguchi Katsushi stared at his incredible eyes. His troops were about to be repelled? This was a huge joke. But before he could reconfirm, news of the frontline requesting tactical guidance came again. And this time the person who came was actually a squadron leader. He looked extremely embarrassed with blood on his face. Yamaguchi Katsushi was so angry that he wanted to pull out his knife and chop this guy up.
"The Chinese must be beaten back at all costs!"
"Your Excellency. The Chinese people invested too many troops in the counterattack, and the commando suffered heavy casualties. Please guide the artillery fire!"
"no!"
Yamaguchi Katsu refused the request for artillery fire support, just kidding! After finally letting the engineer advance so many distances, the efforts of the heavy artillery attacking the engineer will be wasted. Yamaguchi Katsu is not a fool, and he still has this reasoning ability.
"But yourselves..."
"Needless to say, if you can't stop the counterattack of the Chinese people, you can apologize on the battlefield." Yamaguchi Katsushi said.
"Hi!"
The squadron leader looked dim, and suddenly gritted his teeth and his eyes turned red. He turned around without saying anything, waving his command knife and rushed to the front line again.
In order to achieve the purpose of counterattack, Zhang Zuoxiang used a regiment of mobile troops, which was also Sun Liechen's suggestion. Sun Liechen, who had fought with the Japanese several times, was very clear about the strength of the opponent. With the same weapons and equipment, the combat effectiveness of Chinese soldiers was far inferior to that of the Japanese army. If you want to fight the Japanese back, you can succeed by investing a large amount of troops at once with a thunderous momentum. And the current counterattack situation is indeed the case. Compared with the Chinese team that counterattacked, the number of Japanese commandos on the opposite side was only one-fifth of the number of Chinese people, but the opponent's resistance was extremely tenacious and the battle was very fierce.
The entire battle lasted for half an hour. With the waves of Chinese soldiers, the Japanese army, which was at a disadvantage, finally couldn't support it and began to retreat. At this time, the Chinese soldiers decisively divided into two parts, one continued to fight with the slowly retreating Japanese troops, and the other began to clean up the "garbage" left by the Japanese army in front of the barbed wire. After another ten minutes, when the captain of the Japanese commando team led several soldiers to counterattack and was shot on the spot by bullets, the Japanese army that was struggling to collapse, which made the Chinese soldiers who were gritting their teeth and fighting hard. You must know that this was the first time that the Chinese team of ** team fought head-on with their opponents since the war started, and the excited soldiers rushed over with guns, ready to take advantage of the great opportunity of the opponent's retreat.
"It's just nonsense!" Zhang Zuoxiang, who had been closely watching the counterattack, finally smiled with a tense face, but when he saw his soldiers rushing towards the Japanese army regardless of everything due to victory, his face suddenly turned dark again.
"Call brothers and brothers back soon! Hurry!"
"But we won..." A battalion commander who was grinning happily suddenly became a little stunned and asked in confusion.
"Mom, why don't you talk so much nonsense? Hurry up! Let brothers withdraw quickly!" Zhang Zuo met this stupid guy and stood behind him, and kicked him in anger.
A few minutes after the order was issued, the brothers who had fought back all retreated, and there were bursts of violent cannon sounds from the Japanese army.
"Mom, let me slap!"
Not only Zhang Zuoxiang, but also Sun Liechen, who had been by his side, watched the Japanese cannons suddenly start firing, and the flying shells fell into the retreating crowd of the Central Team like raindrops. The soldiers who had not had time to withdraw back to the trenches were immediately accompanied by the explosion. The Central Team, which had just won a victory, ushered in a tragic defeat.
Just as the Japanese army retreated, they learned that the Chinese team had successfully counterattacked, Yamaguchi was stunned for a moment, and then gritted their teeth and issued an order for the artillery to prepare. In his opinion, since the attack failed, let the counterattacking Chinese be buried with his commando team, and let the Chinese taste the taste of failure.
The lesson was painful. While the Chinese team was excited to successfully counterattack, a fierce artillery fire covered the frontier of the position. Because of the hot-headed soldiers who had counterattacked had no time to withdraw in such a short time, the Chinese team suffered heavy casualties under a burst of artillery fire. When the Japanese artillery fire gradually fell behind, Zhang Zuoxiang also received a report on casualties from this counterattack. When he learned that a regiment dispatched had suffered most of the casualties, Zhang Zuoxiang was so angry that his teeth were almost broken.
"Where is the regiment commander? Where is your regiment commander?" Zhang Zuoxiang wanted to swallow the other party alive by grabbing the collar of a withdrawn company commander. Such a large casualties could have been avoided. If it weren't for the battlefield commander's decision-making error, the Japanese artillery fire would not have had such a great effect.
"The regiment...the regiment commander...he..." The company commander, who was blown to the point of blood, could not speak for a moment.
"Mom, what did I say before I attacked? Ah! Why? Who asked you bastards to rush forward like this? My group! My group! I... I'm going to cut him alive!"
"I...our regiment...the commander has been killed..." Just as Zhang Zuoxiang was red and shouting that he wanted to kill someone, the injured company commander finally said the following words. At this time, Zhang Zuoxiang couldn't help but be stunned. He stared at the company commander for a long time, and his hand holding his collar slowly relaxed.
"Hi..." Zhang Zuoxiang pushed the company commander forward with force, and squatted on the ground with his head in his arms.
"Brother Fu Chen, you will gain wisdom from your mistakes. The blood of your brothers will not be in vain. At least we will beat the little Japanese back." Sun Liechen knew Zhang Zuoxiang's mood very well, because he was so heartbroken when he was almost wiped out by the 54th Division not long ago. But now it is not a time for regret. The war is still going on. The Japanese on the opposite side will definitely find a way to attack after suffering such a loss.
"Mom, slap!" After wiping her face, Zhang Zuoxiang stood up: "Yes! The blood of brothers is not in vain. Is the little Japanese crazy? You're going to get me back! Mom, slap, wait and see. With me and brothers all day, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap,
In this battle, both China and Japan suffered heavy casualties, which was also the day when the Chinese team suffered the most casualties since the Buyunshan position started. Of course, this was just the beginning, not the end. In the next few days, whether it was the Japanese army or the Chinese team fighting back and forth on this position, it was often just that the Japanese army was about to break through the blockade of the barbed wire, and the Chinese team launched a fierce counterattack to repel the opponent. When the Chinese team counterattacked, the Japanese army did not engage in many entanglements as they began. After a little resistance, they retreated and opened the distance. Once the Japanese artillery had been ready at the same distance, they began to shell the Chinese team that had counterattacked... After this repeated, the casualties of both sides became bigger and bigger day by day, and the attacks made blood flow into a river in front of the position, and corpses were everywhere.
At this point, both the attacking side and the defense side entered a cruel war of attrition. Yamaguchi Katsushiro and Zhang Zuoxiang, who were so angry that they kept filling their troops. Often, one side attacked and the other side retreated, and the other side retreated and the other side attacked again. They tug-of-war against each other, and no one could do anything to each other.
Chapter completed!